Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway will have a lot more campgrounds and buildings open this spring. The sequester kept many attractions closed last spring, and that hurt a number of businesses.

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy has a hefty "Thank you" to offer to its supporters. Revenue received from the sale of Appalachian Trail specialty license plates in Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia recently exceeded the $1 million mark.

The creek in Southwest Virginia is home to as many as 70 different species of fish and another 30 mussel species, many of them endangered, and also serves as a shelter for aquatic life on the Clinch River during floods and other disruptive events.

When the 2013 NASCAR season finally drew to a close for Clint Bowyer, the No. 15 Toyota driver knew exactly how to put his racing-related headaches in the rearview mirror. He just needed to spend lots of quality time freezing his butt off in a tree.

Tennessee Valley Authority biologists are conducting their annual spring sport fish survey to assess the overall health of species such as crappie and black bass on nine TVA reservoirs in Alabama and Tennessee.